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27 September - 4 October 2009Praise God for His goodness and care!!! Simeon's tonsil operation where a huge success and we were really blessed in so many ways on Curacao. We want to glorify God for taking care of us. Please pray for all the people that touched our lives, may God continue to receive all the glory.Continue to pray for us as family for strength, wisdom in dealing with each situation, protection and provision in our needs here on Bonaire - physically, spiritually, financially and for the ministry - 26 September were our first Bonaire birthday.It is Henk's heart's desire to have individuals or a group to form a team to discuss various issues, to help with the planning and executing of the work on Bonaire and to be the local representative/s of APEM on Bonaire.Please unite in supplication and travailing for this to come forth in the natural.Please raise up and strengthen our hands so that God will give victory in this. The children of Bonaire need it! God's kingdom needs it! And we need it!Thank you for praying for us!2 Cor. 1:11 "... as you help us by means of your prayers for us. So it will be that the many prayers for us will be answered, and God will bless us; and many will raise their voices to him in thanksgiving for us"This re-affirm your irreplaceable contribution in establishing and strengthening the Kingdom of God here on Bonaire.Pietjie and the children's residence permits is not approved, yet and we wait with painful patients for it.Pray for Henk's communication skills in establishing healthy relationships, wisdom, encouragement and favor with men and God in establishing and building the ministry on Bonaire. Thank you that you continue to cover us under God's protection and deliverance through the blood of Jesus Christ for us as family in faithfulness, in health, in relationships, in communications and in service. We really need your earnest and dedicated prayers to be able to serve in faithfulness.Give thanks to God! The 48 mattresses are in the cabins of APEM. Praise God for providing the mattresses and the transport - only He made it possible.

Please pray with us now for youth leaders and other people to come forth to be trained in the evangelizing and discipling of Bonaire's children. That God will also provide in this special need. "Lord, thank you for what You have done thus far for Bonaire. Please continue to make a way where there seems to be no way. Amen".Please pray for the finalization of the renewal process of Pietjie and the children's residence permits - there is still no progress.If you would like to be a regular "prayer donor" for one of the campers, please contact me. You will become their prayer guardian and I will keep you up-to-date with specific prayer requests from the camper. To God all the glory and praises.Thank you for those that responded - we will be in contact with you soon.Please continue to pray for the governing body of Bonaire, the youth (cabin leaders) and the children of the camp for spiritual guidance, strength in making the right decisions and growth to become spiritually mature in Christ.Our God, the only true and living God, is worthy to receive all our praises and appreciation,Henk, Pietjie, Nelmari and Simeon Dauth.

The Dauth family

Sunday, 19 July 2009

Kampamentu APEM 2009

The preparation for the camp consisted of maintenance works throughout the past eight months, specific workdays to fasten the screens to the ventilation blocks of the cabins and a clean-up and final preparation day just before camp. The week before camp was also a spiritual preparation. Every day had an hour of prayer (together with the counsellors and group leaders) - from 18h00-19h00, Monday 29 June till Friday, 3 July. Each prayer session was started with group prayer, where after every individual went around the entire campsite and to the facilities to pray for each and every specific activity that will take place there. After an hour we all gathered again for group prayer to conclude the session.

Then the time arrived for camp. It commenced with a leaders' training weekend for the 15 cabin leaders and staff on Friday, 3 July and ended on Saturday at 16h00. Saturday morning we were blessed with a hard shower of rain and everyone had to gather in the kitchen to continue with the worship and devotion session.

Sunday afternoon at 14h00 all gathered for the final preparation and setup for the campers to arrive at 16h00. The children were registered, the medicine and valuables were taken in for safekeeping as well as the money for snack shop. After the registration three groups had to be compiled and a name badge prepared for each child and cabin leader.

GrupoOraño (Orange)

GrupoKòrá (Red)

GrupoHel (Yellow)

The theme of the camp was "Put on the full amour of God to stand firm against Satan." All the Bible lesson sessions and memory verses were taught by volunteer staff and the cabin leaders did the rest of the follow-up in their cabin groups.

The mornings started out with the singing of the Bonaire anthem. This was followed with group prayer for the Governing body of Bonaire, for the leaders by name and their specific responsibilities. Then it was off for the early morning games filled with challenges, fun and excitement. Next on the program was to get everyone to shower and ready for breakfast.

An hour of Bible time followed, and application sessions that involved Memory verse repetition, a Practise session for the Thursday night show and an Adventure experience to stretch their faith and comfort zone and to encourage team work. This application session was an hour-and-a-half and every half hour the groups changed from one activity to another. At the end of the hour-and-a-half every group would have participated in all three activities.

This brought us to an hour of lunch time, a half hour of rest in the cabins and a half hour of mission time. Hereafter one group would go to the beach for an outing from 14h30 until 18h15.

The other two remaining groups would rotate between an hour Craft time and a hour Snack shop with time for a project. The last hour was spent on team sport - softball against each other - and then an hour of shower (17h00 - 18h00) before dinner time at 18h00. The group that went on the outing will return to shower during the dinner time and every one will then be ready for the evening program at 19h00. During this time they will sing, play a review game and watch a short movie on children prayer. This is followed by devotion and prayer time in the three different groups while the cabin leaders meet to discus the day and share testimonies. Then it is off to the cabins to prepare for bed and half-an-hour later at 22h00 it is lights off and eyes and mouths closed.

This same program is followed for three days and then on Thursday the program change slightly because everyone had an opportunity to go to the beach and that evening it is the Thursday evening show to which all the parents are invited. There is still two important events to mention here, the one happened on Tuesday evening with a surprise "late" birthday singing for one of the staff members, Tante Dionne, and the other was the campfire, singing and enjoyment of crackers squashed on to chocolate and melted marshmallows.

Thursday evening the crafts were inspected, a show presented by the children and a slide show about the camp was viewed followed by all the thank you's and words of appreciations. Hereafter they went to the cabins for devotions, prepared for bed and sleep. Friday is a time for all the last things to enjoy and finishing up the outstanding responsibilities to be ready with all the cleaning and packing-up by 15h00 for the closing program. Here the winning team was announced and a special act preformed - the youngest of the winning team and the oldest of the winning team each got an opportunity to put a cream pie in the camp director's face.

Hereafter all that was left is the memories, the saying good byes, and the last cleaning and tidying up.

26 boys attend this year's camp and 17 girls brought it to a total of 43 children. The boys came one short of the maximum we could accommodate and the girls 10 short. This gave us two groups of 14- and one group of 15 children. Of this whole group 14 children accepted Christ as their personal Saviour.

So we came to the end of a camp that was blessed by God from the first preparations through to the final administration and evaluation sessions still to follow. God worked in and through our lives to touch and change the lives of boys and girls for the better.

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Testimonies:

To God all the glory and praises!!!He is our redeemer and deliverer. Yes, we want to bring praises to our faithful Lord, His Name we want to lift up on high, He is worthy to receive all the glory and in Him we are still, acknowledging Him as Lord.

The two weeks (13-24 April 2009) in Aruba was an awesome highlight for us here in the Caribbean. The Lord not only protected Pietjie and the children during this two week period, but we received so many and such a variety of blessings. There was the isolated challenges to gain victory over - like our fridge that "died" the Sunday afternoon that I left for Aruba and Pietjie had to take charge of this crisis on her own - the fridge is our most valuable piece of furniture, because of the insulin that needs to be kept cool at all times. And the conclusion of this challenge was the provision of a brand new fridge through God's people.

We are so grateful to God's provision through His people. And that includes you for thinking about us, praying for us, contributing to the work in Bonaire and promoting your influence in the ministry here in Bonaire. Thank you that you are obedient in God's kingdom.

The fridge was just the beginning of the blessings. We had 11 students for the 30 hour Teaching Children Effectively, level 1, training in Aruba - 8 of them did it in Papiamentu and 3 did it in English. God did miracles while they were practicing their assignments for their practicals to be evaluated on. One of the student's children accepted Christ as Savior while she was practicing the Wordless book (an evangelistic method) for her evaluation. Another student's child accepted Christ as Savior while she was practicing her Bible lesson for the evaluations. The harvest is ripe, they only need an opportunity to confess that the Lord is God, almighty.

Further more we received a once off donation from the students and other individuals on Aruba to the equivalent of 66% (2/3'ds) of our monthly budget for Bonaire and many other in-kind donations.The exchange rate also dropped to $1:N$ 8.70, but we trust God for an even lower exchange rate. And al the expenses for this training opportunity was provided by CEF Aruba, the housing and all the meals was also given free of charge.We want to express our gratitude for this blessings and pray that God's peace will be with each household and person that formed part of this blessing towards God's servants.

It is only God that can make all these things possible, He is worthy of al our praises - the source of our testimonies.

With another donation we received recently on Bonaire, God supplied in our full monthly budget for April from within the Caribbean region.